Peer Mentor Volunteers
Open Mental Health Peer Mentor Volunteers are part of our Peer Connections project. The project aims to help people with their health and wellbeing, through mutually supportive one-to-one relationships. Peer Mentors call on their own lived experience of mental health challenges to help others seeking support.
We value your experience
We are always looking for individuals with lived experience of mental health difficulties to help to support others going through a similar experience. Peer support can be really beneficial for both mentor and mentee.
We do not have any volunteer vacancies at present but will be recruiting more peer mentor volunteers in the future.
Your experiences are a powerful tool that can be used to support other people who have similar struggles with their mental health. Becoming a peer mentor volunteer may be important to you for various reasons; whether it’s to connect with other people, support others through using your experiences, help with a sense of purpose, or gain experience and confidence for employment. Peer mentoring can be helpful to maintain your own recovery as well as being helpful to those receiving support.
How and when mentoring sessions take place
The Benefits of Peer Mentoring
Some of the benefits of either giving or receiving peer support are:
- Increased understanding or insight into mental health issues
- Improved coping strategies
- Increased confidence and self-esteem
- An increase in hopefulness
- Increased social activities and/or involvement in the wider community
Learn more
Below Lucy describes her journey from accessing mental health services to becoming an Open Mental Health peer mentor.